Mozilla will stop supporting Firefox for Windows XP SP1 and Windows 2000. 99.6% of the Firefox users would be many disadvantages are experienced by the in keeping support for the old Windows versions.
“Next Tuesday or Wednesday, after Firefox 12 moves on to Aurora, the Release Engineering team at Mozilla make a start with the upgrade to Visual Studio 2010,” writes Mozilla’s Asa Dotzler in a blogposting. After the migration of the systems to the new version, it will no longer be possible for a new Firefox version on Windows 2000, Windows XP RTM and Windows XP Service Pack 1 is running.
According to Dotzler has 99.6% of the users of Firefox for Windows ‘paid the price’ for the long delay to open a new Visual Studio version to support to maintain. The developers would not have of a modern compiler functionality and the users would not, therefore, the fastest possible browser. Also would Mozilla add functionality as spdy support, have to postpone.
The last supported version of Firefox for Windows 2000 Firefox 12, on 5 June should appear. Dotzler recommends that users then Opera. Windows XP users, he recommends strongly all the Service Packs to install. For the business Extended Support Release of Firefox, the support for another six months.